tree climbing bryophytes & lichens at tree base and crown with traits

Original data comes from a project which takes or took place as part of the DFG priority program "Exploratories for large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research". The data is stored together with descriptive metadata, in combination called a dataset, in the project repository (https://www.bexis.uni-jena.de). Species information was extracted from that original dataset. The second paragraph is part of the metadata of the original dataset. bryophyte and lichen taxa abundance on trunk and crown on one tree per forest VIP; more info in paper3 in reference section of this metadata